Dana M. Lach is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, with more than 20 years’ experience encompassing a broad range of financings for non-profit, governmental and for-profit entities. Her clients include corporate and governmental issuers, institutional lenders and purchasers, investment banks and other commercial loan and finance participants. Dana is chair of the firm’s Health Care Finance team and a member of the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions; Public Finance and Project Finance Practices; The Healthcare Team; as well as the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Team.

Dana works closely with her clients in structuring financings for development projects, including governmental, health care, manufacturing, infrastructure, cultural and educational facilities, using tax-exempt and taxable bonds, commercial loans and nontraditional financing products such as commercial paper programs and securitizations, and derivative transactions.

Dana also provides general corporate counsel to for-profit, nonprofit and governmental and clients. She counsels clients on commercial contractual activities, and corporate governance and compliance issues, including the federal securities disclosure and tax law requirements applicable to issuers of tax-exempt bonds. This includes assisting clients with developing and implementing policies and procedures for both tax and public disclosure requirements.

In the arbitrage rebate area, Dana supervises our arbitrage rebate department and has significant experience in arbitrage rebate reduction strategies. In addition, she also provides structuring advice to corporate clients, in applying both federal and state law tax requirements. Her tax experience also includes providing guidance on “remedial actions” for changes in use of bond financed facilities, and information reporting for the IRS Form 990, Schedule K.